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Re:Trump bans Alipay and seven other Chinese apps by puppymaster on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @08:35AM (#25657571)
Not that hard for me. Americans have criticized, sued and raised awareness about their government misconducts, with little repercussions. Joseph Gordon-Levitt didn't get persecuted for playing Snowden. Adam Driver didn't receive state sanctioned intimidation for playing Daniel J. Jones. Director, screenwriters, producers and etc get to live their life normally.

Can you imagine what will happen to Fan Bing Bing if she plays Chai Ling (One of Tiananmen Square student leader)?

So to answer your question - no it's not okay. But I would expect HN audience to be able to see the obvious distinctions.

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Re:Trump bans Alipay and seven other Chinese apps by trasz on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @11:46AM (#25659369)
McCarthy’s commission existed till... early seventies?
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Re:Trump bans Alipay and seven other Chinese apps by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @11:54AM (#25659488)
The committee McCarthy chaired at the time of his notorious anti-Communist crusade was the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which still exists.

You may be thinking of the House Un-American Activities Committee, which also spent some time doing similar anti-Communist witch hunts, which existed until being renamed as the House Internal Security Committee in 1969, and was abolished with it's functions transferred to the House Judiciary Committee in 1975.

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Re:Trump bans Alipay and seven other Chinese apps by trasz on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @12:05PM (#25659603)
Thanks. So it boils down to China being where USA was 50 years ago, freedom of speech-wise?
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Re:Trump bans Alipay and seven other Chinese apps by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @12:15PM (#25659749)
Well, no, 63 years ago was Yates v. US; even through the height of the anti-Communist witch hunting phase, the US had a stronger protection of free speech rights of Communists than China has for dissidents today.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yates_v._United_States

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Re:Trump bans Alipay and seven other Chinese apps by echelon on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @08:51AM (#25657689)
It's ironic that you mention Hollywood, because our studios are now catering to CCP sensibilities. You'll never see a film critical of China made domestically. Our studios want access to the Chinese market and they know that if they produce such a film, they'll be blacklisted.

This is why we need top-down decoupling. China knows we're addicted, and they've got us in a good spot to continue growing off of our market.

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Re:Trump bans Alipay and seven other Chinese apps by hertzrat on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @02:08PM (#25661017)
It’s happening in gaming too. The most recent thing in memory was something Blizzard did, and apparently the word Taiwan is censored in all chats in PubG[1]

[1] https://venturebeat.com/2018/11/15/chinese-censorship-affect...

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Re:Trump bans Alipay and seven other Chinese apps by jimbob45 on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @01:49PM (#25660799)
Isn’t it the case that only 10 or so US movies are allowed in China in any given year? I figure that we optimize our 10 movies for China and then leave the rest alone.
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